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Africans outraged over 'racist' Trump remarks

January 17, 2018 01:03·
Donald Trump’s comments were allegedly made on Thursday at a White House meeting with lawmakers on immigration reform

Donald Trump’s comments were allegedly made on Thursday at a White House meeting with lawmakers on immigration reform

"I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed", Trump told reporters at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he was having dinner with Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

"The remarks dishonour the celebrated American creed and respect for diversity and human dignity".

"If confirmed these are shocking and shameful comments from the President of the United States. They said those words were used before those words went public", Flake said.

Trump was widely derided previous year after twice referring to Namibia as "Nambia".

Many Africans reminded the USA of its historic role in the continent's woes.

Trump appeared to give up for dead an immigration deal, coming back on the issue in a pair of early morning tweets three days after reportedly referring to African and Haitian immigrants as coming from "shithole countries", triggering global condemnation. "I don't know in which context they were made".

Prominent Kenyan commentator Patrick Gathara told AFP that Trump's words were nothing new. "We have consistently been portrayed as shitty people from shitty countries".

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Hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the country illegally as children - so-called "Dreamers" - face deportation unless a compromise can be reached that would grant them rights to stay. "Our motherland is the most blessed continent that has been raped by imperialists in collaboration with our shitty misleaders for generations", wrote Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi on Twitter.

Trump stands accused of using "s--hole" to describe African countries during an immigration meeting with a bipartisan group of six senators.

In Senegal's capital Dakar, administrator Idrissa Fall said "we can not really say that he (Trump) is wrong". Lindsey Graham confronted the president during the meeting about his comments.

However Juba businesswoman Jenny Jore, 31, told AFP that Trump's remarks were "on point".

"The AU mission condemns the statement in the strongest terms and demands a retraction of the comment as well as an apology to not only the Africans but to all people of African descent across the globe". However, Trump himself repeated the phrase during private phone calls later that same day.

"He didn't just name a white country, he named the whitest - so white they wear moon-screen", he said.

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